Hi, With the configure line you posted, all tests will be configured and built as part of the default 'all' target.
If you wish the default all target not to build all tests (but still configure the tests and build them manually / explicitly), you can configure with -DQT_NO_MAKE_TESTS=ON. Note the option might be renamed soon https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/318032 Ninja has special targets to build all targets under a directory. e.g. ninja tests/auto/gui/all You can also build a specific test by name ninja tst_qmake ninja tst_qmake_check (builds and runs the test) If you want to build tests out-of-tree aka not part of the Qt build (standalone tests), there's the script in $prefix/bin/qt-cmake-standalone-test Note it might not work in all cases (long story). ________________________________________ From: Development <[email protected]> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Development] How to build unit tests & examples on demand with Qt6/CMake? With Qt5, I just did: ./configure -nomake tests -nomake examples [...] And for each one I needed, I just ran qmake directly. For example: mkdir -p tests/auto/corelib cd tests/auto/corelib qmake $srcdir make qmake_all cd serialization/qcborvalue make check mkdir -p examples/corelib/serialization/cbordump cd examples/corelib/serialization/cbordump qmake $srcdir make How do I do that with CMake? Configure line: cmake -G Ninja $srcdir '-DBUILD_WITH_PCH=OFF' \ '-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tjmaciei/obj/qt/qt6/qtbase' \ '-DQT_QMAKE_TARGET_MKSPEC=linux-g++-optimised' \ '-DFEATURE_optimize_debug=OFF' '-DFEATURE_developer_build=ON' \ '-DFEATURE_reduce_relocations=ON' '-DFEATURE_journald=ON' \ '-DFEATURE_sctp=ON' -DINPUT_qt_libinfix=.t -DFEATURE_openssl_linked=ON \ '-DBUILD_TESTING=ON' '-DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF' The last line is likely significant. I want to be able to build only the tests and examples I specify. Never all. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
